> When I first got into tech, the technology amazed me, not the problems it solved. The tech was enough, it was not a means to an end, it just was. As I got old

> When I first got into tech, the technology amazed me, not the problems it solved. The tech was enough, it was not a means to an end, it just was. As I got older, and started owning projects, managing teams, etc, I realized that technology should be in service of something, not just a thing to exist in and of itself. This reminds me when somebody on an old project said: "well, Git is almost the same as our Subversion..." But, in the end, why not be amazed by the technology? Why can we gamble but not crypto trade? It's not logical. Let's take smokers. They are burning their cash plus getting themselves sick, getting others to breathe their smoke and loading our universal healthcare through their individual addictions. What problem does smoking solve?